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What is Pattern

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The regular order existing in nature or in a manmade design. In nature patterns can be seen as symmetries (e.g., snowflakes) and/or structures having fractal dimension such as spirals, meanders, or surface waves. In computer science, design patterns serve in creating computer programs. In the arts, pattern is an artistic or decorative design made of recurring lines or any repeated elements. We can see patterns everywhere in nature, mathematics, art, architecture, and design. A pattern makes a basis of ornaments, which are specific for different cultures.
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Visualization as Communication with Graphic Representation
Anna Ursyn (University of Northern Colorado, USA)
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Fundamental Ideas Behind Control Charts
A pattern is an arrangement of lines or shapes, specifically if they are repeated at regular intervals across a surface.
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Pattern-Oriented Use Case Modeling
A proven solution to a recurring problem in a given context.
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Clustering Techniques for Revealing Gene Expression Patterns
In biology with pattern (sometimes “profile”) one refers to different types of regularity, such as the regularity of the biological sequences of DNA or proteins that allow the recognition and specific binding between molecules, or the regularity in the level of expression of the genes of cells which allow the recognition of different experimental cell types including tumor cell types, or the regularity in the events that occur during processes such as the development of an organism, or even the regularities in the behavior of animals.
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A Knowledge Management Model for Patterns
An empirically proven solution to a recurring problem that occurs in a particular context.
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A Generic Architectural Model Approach for Efficient Utilization of Patterns: Application in the Mobile Domain
In general, a pattern presents a solution to a problem in a context. In software engineering, it has been defined by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides (1995) as a description of communicating objects and classes that are customized to solve a general design problem in a particular context.
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Learning Design Representations to Document, Model, and Share Teaching Practice
A pattern is a way of documenting a successful solution to a recurring design problem in a non-contextualized way so that the solution can be applied (reused) in many different contexts. It can be considered a “rule of thumb.
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Visualization by Coding: Drawing Simple Shapes and Forms in Various Programming Languages
A regular order existing in nature or in a manmade design. In nature patterns can be seen as symmetries (e.g., snowflakes), and structures having fractal dimension such as spirals, meanders, or surface waves. In computer science, design patterns serve in creating computer programs. In the arts, a pattern is an artistic or decorative design made of recurring lines or any repeated elements. We can see patterns everywhere in nature, mathematics, art, architecture, and design. A pattern makes a basis of ornaments, which are specific for different cultures. Owen Jones (1856) AU69: The in-text citation "Owen Jones (1856)" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. made a huge collection of ornaments typical for different countries. He wrote a monographic book entitled “The Grammar of Ornament.”
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Folds and Refolds: Space Generation, Shapes, and Complex Components
Set of partial results show systematically behavioral traits associated with a particular situation, entity or object.
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Knowledge-Based Forensic Patterns and Engineering System
It is a compact and rich in semantic representation of raw data.
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Design Patterns for Facilitation in E-Collaboration
A pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again and then describes the core of the solution to that problem in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice.
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Building Gene Networks by Analyzing Gene Expression Profiles
In biology with pattern (sometimes “profile”) one refers to different types of regularity, such as the regularity of the biological sequences of DNA or proteins that allow the recognition and specific binding between molecules, or the regularity in the level of expression of the genes of cells which allow the recognition of different experimental cell types including tumor cell types, or the regularity in the events that occur during processes such as the development of an organism, or even the regularities in the behavior of animals.
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A Process Architecture Approach to Manage Health Process Reforms
A pattern in general is “an abstraction from a concrete form which keeps recurring in specific non-arbitrary contexts” (Riehle and Zullighoven, 1995).
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Intelligent CALL: Using Pattern Matching to Learn English
Pattern describes items that are organized regularly not randomly.
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Pattern Warehouse: A Dedicated Pattern Management System
It is a compact and rich in semantic representation of raw data.
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Insight Into Big Data Analytics: Challenges, Recent Trends, and Future Prospects
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Using Patterns for Engineering High-Quality Mobile Applications
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Duality of Natural and Technological Explanations
An artistic or decorative design made of recurring lines or any repeated elements. We can see patterns everywhere in nature, mathematics, art, architecture, and design. A pattern makes a basis of ornaments, which are specific for different cultures. Owen Jones (1856) AU204: The in-text citation "Owen Jones (1856)" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. made a huge collection of ornaments typical for different countries. He wrote an amazing monographic book entitled “The Grammar of Ornament.”
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Innovation and Creativity in Applied Learning Theory and Design: A Frontier Research in Pedagogy
A discernible regularity in the world or in a design, which could be observed directly or through empirical study.
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Metaheuristic Design Patterns: New Perspectives for Larger-Scale Search Architectures
According to Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides (1995) AU142: The in-text citation "Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides (1995)" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. software design patterns are, “... descriptions of communicating objects and classes that are customized to solve a general design problem in a particular context” , and comprise four essential elements: a pattern name, a design problem, a design solution and the consequences, i.e. the results and tradeoffs of applying the pattern.
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Factors Shaping the Patterns of Online Shopping Behavior
A specific form of any activity or anything which is built, cherished, consumed, demonstrated, done, organized, picked, referred, seen, etc. repeatedly in the same or a similar manner within the limits of the reasonable range of variations.
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Pattern Languages for CMC Design
A repeatedly observed structure that has evolved to solve problems in context. This structure is usually a complex balancing of forces, not a single solution to a single problem. These patterns are a template for re-use.
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Alphabets and Characters
Means the regular order existing in nature and in a manmade design. We can see patterns everywhere in nature, mathematics, art, architecture, and design. In nature patterns can be seen as symmetries (e.g., snowflakes) and/or structures having fractal dimension such as spirals, meanders, or surface waves. In computer science, design patterns serve in creating computer programs. In the arts, pattern is an artistic or decorative design made of recurring lines or any repeated elements. A pattern makes a basis of ornaments, which are specific for different cultures. Owen Jones (1856) AU8: The in-text citation "Owen Jones (1856)" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. made a huge collection of ornaments typical for different countries. He wrote an amazing monographic book entitled “The Grammar of Ornament.”
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Classification with Incomplete Data
is an entity that can be represented by a set of properties and variables, which are known as features or attributes. As examples, a pattern can be a fingerprint image, a human face or a speech signal.
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Visualization as a Knowledge Transfer
The regular order existing in nature or in a manmade design. In nature patterns can be seen as symmetries (e.g., snowflakes) and/or structures having fractal dimension such as spirals, meanders, or surface waves. In computer science, design patterns serve in creating computer programs. In the arts, pattern is an artistic or decorative design made of recurring lines or any repeated elements. We can see patterns everywhere in nature, mathematics, art, architecture, and design. Patterns make a basis of ornaments, which are specific for different cultures.
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Cognitive Learning with Electronic Media and Social Networking
A regular order existing in nature or in a manmade design. In nature patterns can be seen as symmetries (e.g., snowflakes), and structures having fractal dimension such as spirals, meanders, or surface waves. In computer science, design patterns serve in creating computer programs. In the arts, pattern is an artistic or decorative design made of recurring lines or any repeated elements. We can see patterns everywhere in nature, mathematics, art, architecture, and design. A pattern makes a basis of ornaments, which are specific for different cultures. Owen Jones (1856) made a huge collection of ornaments typical for different countries. He wrote an amazing monographic book entitled “The Grammar of Ornament.”
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A Process Architecture Approach to Manage Health Process Reforms
A pattern in general is “an abstraction from a concrete form which keeps recurring in specific non-arbitrary contexts” (Riehle and Zullighoven, 1995).
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Intelligent Traffic Sign Classifiers
Observation vector that for its relevance is considered as an important example of the input space.
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Expression and Processing of Inductive Queries
An expression in some language representing a high-level description of a dataset.
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Efficient Utilization of Patterns in Mobile Application Development: An Architectural Model Approach
In general, a pattern presents a solution to a problem in a context. In software engineering, it has been defined by Gamma, Helm, Johnson and Vlissides (1995) as a description of communicating objects and classes that are customized to solve a general design problem in a particular context.
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Embracing the Social Web for Managing Patterns
An empirically proven solution to a recurring problem that occurs in a particular context.
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Patterns for Improving the Pragmatic Quality of Web Information Systems
A proven solution to a recurring problem in a given context.
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An Agent and Pattern-Oriented Approach to Data Visualization
Pattern is defined as the solution to a problem in a specific context.
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Patterns in the Field of Software Engineering
Is a recurring solution to a common problem in a given context and system of forces ( Alexander, 1979 ).
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Semantic Approach to Knowledge Representation and Processing
Patterns are used to generalize natural language statements, queries, answers, commands, etc. They are comprised of simple and complex semantic categories and defined in the form of examples in natural language.
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Tool Based Integration of Requirements Modeling and Validation into Business Process Modeling
In a G-CTL rule a pattern addresses a certain part(s) of a business process model (not including control flow). They specify atomic expressions in G-CTL. The possibility to use wildcards allows to abstract from concrete model element names.
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Permeability in Bioclimatic Modular Facades: Spanish Sheds
Model to be used as a sample to produce a larger element or a mosaic, repeating the module several times.
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Product Backlog and Requirements Engineering for Enterprise Application Development
A reusable solution to a common problem in a particular software context.
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Some Efficient and Fast Approaches to Document Clustering
An object either physical or abstract which can be represented using a set of feature values. Normally a pattern is seen as a point in a feature space.
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